India, Jan. 28 -- In a major blunder, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) left a 400-tonne girder for the Carnac bridge dangling by the cables of a 700-tonne crane on the night of January 25-26 during a 6-hour block that got extended by five hours. This could not be rectified even on the night of January 26-27, and so an emergency block was taken on Monday night (January 27-28) between 12:30am and 4am.

What happened on Sunday?

The BMC, over the weekend, took up work of launching a girder for Carnac bridge as part of the second phase. Sources in Central Railway said that it seemed the BMC was not fully prepared for the work which led to a technical failure while pushing the 400-odd-tonne steel girder.

"The jack, which was holdi...